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I’ve heard the “how old are you” for very young children and teasingly for people up there in years. I’ve never heard the counting.
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Jay Rust posted:Reading the Happy Birthday to You article in Wikipedia, and That whole section on traditional variations is completely unsourced and is most likely just something that some editor put in because they heard it a few times. I would delete it but the article is semi-protected and I can't be bothered to log in.
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Oct 21, 2021 13:31
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Usually it goes "how old are you now..." then everyone laughs at the funny joke of continuing the birthday song and it stops
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Oct 21, 2021 14:23
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Jay Rust posted:Reading the Happy Birthday to You article in Wikipedia, and My Chinese-Canadian neighbours' kids were doing it last Monday, quite loudly. So yes, someone does it.
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Oct 21, 2021 14:30
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Just the how old are you now. No numbers. Source: Manitoba. Circa 1990’s. Winter months usually. Maybe in the summer it’d come out more. Locations: McDonald’s. Never a backyard. Bombers must have had an ok season. Parents maybe fighting but putting a smile on for others. Average grades were usually a precursor to singing the bonus content.
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Oct 21, 2021 14:37
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I heard the "how old are you now" thing so frequently I'm surprised to learn it's a Canadian affectation. Definitely heard the counting thing before, though I can't remember where or when. Daycare, maybe?
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Oct 21, 2021 14:46
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Vintersorg posted:Just the how old are you now. No numbers. Source: Manitoba. Circa 1990’s. Winter months usually. Maybe in the summer it’d come out more. Locations: McDonald’s. Never a backyard. Bombers must have had an ok season. Parents maybe fighting but putting a smile on for others. Average grades were usually a precursor to singing the bonus content. 
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Oct 21, 2021 14:48
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I've lived in Toronto my whole life and the counting thing was done at parties when I was kid. Sometimes people start to do it as a joke at adult parties. In other news, lol at the Sun's cover this morning. It even has the ring. 
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Oct 21, 2021 16:03
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Mr. Apollo posted:I've lived in Toronto my whole life and the counting thing was done at parties when I was kid. Sometimes people start to do it as a joke at adult parties. BRB, stealing this one for the cursed images thread.
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Oct 21, 2021 16:14
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Meanwhile in Saskatchewan… https://twitter.com/drhassoun/status/1450964261258268672?s=21 https://twitter.com/patrickmaze/status/1451173693883748357?s=21 Moe has hosed over the province hard. He spent the summer appeasing the vocal anti-Vax minority and now our health care system has essentially collapsed. He put off asking for federal help as long as he could, and he cancelled ICU transfers to Ontario because it made him look bad.
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Oct 21, 2021 16:33
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Mr. Apollo posted:I've lived in Toronto my whole life and the counting thing was done at parties when I was kid. Sometimes people start to do it as a joke at adult parties. That is 100% intentional. What with the ring, and that's not how you'd grip a note to pull on it. Amazing.
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Oct 21, 2021 16:42
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I thought that the QR code for Ontario was supposed to work double time so I don't need to show photo ID and proof of vaccination and they just scan my code. Seems that's not the case, which makes me wonder what's the point of the QR code if I'm still showing ID and proof of Vax.
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Oct 21, 2021 17:30
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Arc Hammer posted:I thought that the QR code for Ontario was supposed to work double time so I don't need to show photo ID and proof of vaccination and they just scan my code. The point is that it’s actually confirming your vaccination status with a government server and not just showing an easily faked piece of paper. When scanned, if it’s a valid code, it pops up your name and DOB to be checked against your id to make sure it’s actually your code and not just some random other person’s you copied. I’m not sure how else you’d do it.
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Oct 21, 2021 17:35
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Arc Hammer posted:I thought that the QR code for Ontario was supposed to work double time so I don't need to show photo ID and proof of vaccination and they just scan my code. Just guessing but the app probably connects to the vaccine database not the ohip database so they're not able to pull down your card picture, the thing was developed pretty quickly so that's probably for the best.
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Oct 21, 2021 17:38
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With ours, you still need ID to confirm the name and date of birth displayed by the scanner app, but you don't also need your original proof-of-vaccination card.
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Oct 21, 2021 17:41
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The Verify Ontario app doesn't go online - it was built so it can be used anywhere, including places lacking a good or existing internet connection. All the QR code provides is vaccination status, name, and DOB. They still need to compare that with a piece of ID.
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Oct 21, 2021 17:51
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Just annoyed me this morning when I went to the gym. Province told Goodlife they had to ditch the Fast Pass system so it's now slower to get through the gate
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Oct 21, 2021 17:54
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regarding the "how old are you now?" thing, that happened off and on when I was a kid (central Alberta) and the counting "are ya 1, are ya 2, etc." happened maybe 3 times, all before the age of 10. know what happens 90% of the time after someone sings Happy Birthday? Someone (maybe a couple people) will continue with "and many more"
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Oct 21, 2021 18:20
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Aces High posted:regarding the "how old are you now?" thing, that happened off and on when I was a kid (central Alberta) and the counting "are ya 1, are ya 2, etc." happened maybe 3 times, all before the age of 10. Yeah, in interior BC and later AB, I've never heard the number thing, but I have frequently heard "and many more."
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Oct 21, 2021 18:22
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“How old are you now” happened all the time for me, but only in French (I did not know there was an English version at all until this very moment). French immersion in BC (northern and coastal), the kids in the program would sing this at non-immersion kids’ parties too.  Ed. Oh man it’s flooding back. We also sang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gens_du_pays and also the English “you look like a monkey” parody. Every party was like, four cacophonous songs minimum. kaom fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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Oct 21, 2021 18:47
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As another central Alberta type, I never, ever, heard the 'and how old are you now etc' bit in my life, be it via family from small town or city, friends, acquaintances, anyone. This thread was the first time I've ever heard of it in my life. 'and many mooore' was fairly common, though. Clearly not part of the original song, but a generally accepted 'improvisation'.
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Oct 21, 2021 18:53
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Central Alberta here, yes we had how old are you now? growing up. I think the counting only happened once in my life or someone tried to start it and failed to get us all on board because we all wanted to hurry up and have cake. E: and many more was more common though.
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Oct 21, 2021 18:57
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I've never heard the how old are you now and as such consider you my enemies
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Oct 21, 2021 19:01
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Assuming they're like the BC one whose spec was posted like a month ago, all the data's in the QR code, that's why they're so big. The app can ask a server to cryptographically verify that the QR code was issued by a recognized health authority, which prevents you or me from making our own QR code with (possibly bogus) data. If you're offline, you can't do that verification, but the data's still usable. If you want some assurance that the verified-to-be-from-a-health-authority QR code actually matches the person standing in front of you, you can compare the QR code's data with their photo ID.
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Oct 21, 2021 19:02
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This "how old are you now" stuff is like elf on a shelf. It's apparently some beloved tradition that I've never really been exposed to, and the first time I head of both I felt like I was in an episode of Sliders.
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Oct 21, 2021 19:29
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pokeyman posted:Assuming they're like the BC one whose spec was posted like a month ago, all the data's in the QR code, that's why they're so big. The app can ask a server to cryptographically verify that the QR code was issued by a recognized health authority, which prevents you or me from making our own QR code with (possibly bogus) data. If you're offline, you can't do that verification, but the data's still usable. The Ontario vaccination QR code is signed with the Ontario Health private key, the verification app also has the public key and can check against it (it doesn't need a live connection for this, just a copy of the public key). If it doesn't validate you get a warning saying so. There's still nothing there that verifies it's your vaccination status, so of course they need photo ID that matches the name and DOB in the QR code. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Oct 22, 2021 |
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Oct 21, 2021 19:36
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Alctel posted:That is 100% intentional.
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Oct 21, 2021 19:37
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Speaking of beloved traditions that are in absolutely no way traditions in other parts of the country: It's almost Halloween, which in Vancouver means setting off poo poo tons of fireworks.... except that Vancouver finally banned it this year. Gonna be interesting to see whether people actually abide by this or have sneakily found some grey market source to buy fireworks and will be setting off fireworks nonetheless. Normally around this time a bunch of otherwise empty storefronts would have been taken over as fireworks popup shops with gaudy enormous FIREWORKS signs. Not so this year.
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Oct 21, 2021 19:43
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You can still verify your vaccine status with the piece of paper if you don't have a phone right?
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Oct 21, 2021 19:55
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Calumanjaro posted:You can still verify your vaccine status with the piece of paper if you don't have a phone right? In BC you need to have the QR code, the card immunization record isn’t acceptable any more. You can print the QR code out though.
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Oct 21, 2021 20:02
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sexual-misconduct-military-senior-leaders-dnd-caf-1.6218683 lol
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Oct 21, 2021 20:05
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half cocaine posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sexual-misconduct-military-senior-leaders-dnd-caf-1.6218683 How do you reform something so absolutely broken and rotted to the core.
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Oct 21, 2021 20:32
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The list goes on and on and on and it's all top brass wtf
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Oct 21, 2021 20:51
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why do we have a military again
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Oct 21, 2021 21:13
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Who else would take the Dane's schnapps and replace it with rye?
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Oct 21, 2021 21:16
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half cocaine posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sexual-misconduct-military-senior-leaders-dnd-caf-1.6218683 I built a spreadsheet to track all this but I'm glad CBC could lay it all out for me to pick up the one I've missed. Some other notable cases: Cpl Casey Burnel: faced administrative reprisal after reporting sexual misconduct (his case went to Gen Vance, who sided with the Chain of Command) LCol Elanor Taylor: A high-profile female officer that left due to how rampant misconduct was in the CF LCol Bernie Boland: Stood up for a former female colleague, and faced a DND-backed smear campaign Avr Emily Tulloch: Raped on month into Basic Training. Her Military Police interview allegedly felt more like an interrogation. Krystina MacLean: A DND civilian who was suspended after reporting misconduct And that's just the sexual misconduct related stuff that's made the news in 2021. BGen Simon Bernard was taken off the Vaccine Rollout for saying the n-word, 3 days after MGen Dany Fortin was removed. 2021's been a great year for our uniformed members.
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Oct 21, 2021 21:16
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Pleads posted:Who else would take the Dane's schnapps and replace it with rye? Savvy Inuit?
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Oct 21, 2021 21:38
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Fart Amplifier posted:This "how old are you now" stuff is like elf on a shelf. It's apparently some beloved tradition that I've never really been exposed to, and the first time I head of both I felt like I was in an episode of Sliders. Elf on the Shelf was invented out of whole cloth in TYOOL 2004 to sell elf dolls.
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Oct 21, 2021 21:52
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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infernal machines posted:The Ontario vaccination QR code is signed with the Ontario Health public key, the verification app also has the public key and can check against it (it doesn't need a live connection for this, just a copy of the public key). If it doesn't validate you get a warning saying so. There's still nothing there that verifies it's your vaccination status, so of course they need photo ID that matches the name and DOB in the QR code. Right, that makes sense!
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Pleads posted:How do you reform something so absolutely broken and rotted to the core. Yeah I wish I could say this was just a case of powerful higher-ups - essentially politicians - doing this. But even at the ground floor there's at minimum rampant infidelity and womanizing. One of the reasons I left.
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